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Speaker 1: and the Dallas Cowboys Football Club. This he's Talking Cowboys,

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Speaker 1: screaming live from the Dallas Cowboys World headquarters at the

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Speaker 1: Star in FRISCOO and now your hosts Isaiah Stanback, heck

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Speaker 1: My Harrison, Rob Phillips, and Kyle Yeoman's for just the

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Speaker 1: fourth time in twenty twenty, the Dallas Cowboys get to

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Speaker 1: celebrate a victory Monday. And that's exactly what we're gonna

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Speaker 1: do here on Talking Cowboys as Dallas goes up to

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Speaker 1: Cincinnati and takes down the Bengals thirty to seven, the

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Speaker 1: final score and what was most arguably the most dominant

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Speaker 1: game from the Cowboys defense this season. They forced three turnovers,

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Speaker 1: all of which in the first half, and they take

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Speaker 1: advantage and hey, how about Alden Smith. Alden Smith a

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Speaker 1: bit of a fifth or excuse me, a seventy eight

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Speaker 1: yard touchdown return on the scoop and score probably my

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Speaker 1: favorite moment of the twenty twenty season. But we're gonna

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Speaker 1: break it down for you, and we're gonna talk about

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Speaker 1: everything that happened in that Sinci game and how it

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Speaker 1: relates to the twenty twenty Cowboys season, maybe even the

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Speaker 1: twenty twenty one Cowboys season. As we're here inside the

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Speaker 1: virtual SWBC Mortgage Studios streaming live from the Star in Friscos,

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Speaker 1: Chris being doing great work in the back of Kyle

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Speaker 1: Yeoman's with you, Rob Phillips, Isaiah stand back, and then

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Speaker 1: Heck Mahrrison officially now a pro and college football so

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Speaker 1: we have something to celebrate here as Heck Maharrison made

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Speaker 1: his ESPN college debut, but now he's back on the

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Speaker 1: pro football side of things. But you also, sir, might

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Speaker 1: have won a Christmas tree. I hear, I think a

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Speaker 1: Christmas tree is on the way to your house, right, Isaiah, Yes,

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Speaker 1: I am a man of my word. I did put out.

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Speaker 1: I came at Heckma. I came at Heckma with a bet.

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Speaker 1: Um it was. I said it with my chest, and

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Speaker 1: it was in the greatest of interest for the Cowboys

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Speaker 1: because should my bet have come true, we were definitely

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Speaker 1: um do a win. But we still got the win

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Speaker 1: even without me winning my bet, which is really the

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Speaker 1: ultimate win because everybody wins that right. But Heckma, as

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Speaker 1: soon as the game was over and he dont did

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Speaker 1: not throw for three hundred yards. He did not throw

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Speaker 1: three touchdowns. So you did? You did, sir win that

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Speaker 1: bet and the tree has been ordered and it will

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Speaker 1: be on your doorstep within days. You know what they say, Well,

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Speaker 1: the millennials say this don't come from me unless I

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Speaker 1: send for you. But I appreciate the tree, don't do

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Speaker 1: the millennials really say that? But I think so so so. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: I don't know about that, but yeah, congratulations Hekma owner

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Speaker 1: who may not have listened on Thursday or Friday, the

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Speaker 1: bet was that if Andy Dalton threw for three hundred

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Speaker 1: yards and three touchdowns that Isaiah would upgrade upgrade, Uh,

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Speaker 1: heckmas tree in the background. Hackma's working with this tree.

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Speaker 1: Well that's what I get for listening to Beyonce. Heckma's

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Speaker 1: tree is being upgraded in Isaiah. What were the words

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Speaker 1: you told me whenever I asked you how big the

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Speaker 1: tree was yesterday? Said it won't fit in his area. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: he's got to figure that out. Tree from the damn

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Speaker 1: Christmas vacations. You got to figure it out. Window, He's

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Speaker 1: got to figure it out. He bought the tree up

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Speaker 1: at the up at the what's it called thirty Rock

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Speaker 1: and Sware up in Dallas. I really did it just

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Speaker 1: so his wife to side I am. That's that's really

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Speaker 1: it's gonna be a lot of fun hooking that tree up.

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Speaker 1: But Rob the Cowboys get the thirty to seven win

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Speaker 1: yesterday against the Bengals. Was this the best defensive outing

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Speaker 1: guys today. Kyle heckma ESPN fame Like, no, right, me

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Speaker 1: and I they are gonna be watching you guys are

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Speaker 1: like on a sports centered commercial one day and be

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Speaker 1: like remember when remember when we knew? Hey, I'm just

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Speaker 1: happy that. I'm just happy that as of right now,

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Speaker 1: figure out the tiers, right, we're figuring out the tiers.

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Speaker 1: You got the Jets, you got the Bengals. The Cowboys

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Speaker 1: And that's what happened. Look, let me let me just

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Speaker 1: those three turnovers is something that we had done previously.

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Speaker 1: So but this is a great victory no matter how

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Speaker 1: the other big storylines, Isaiah and you kind of talked

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Speaker 1: Everything is monitored. So yes, they want to go out

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Speaker 1: there and they want to take care of business. And

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Speaker 1: if you're not doing that, you're probably not gonna be

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Speaker 1: around next year. And if there is a silver lining

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Speaker 1: to all this this season, the injuries, it's that Mike

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Speaker 1: McCarthy has gotten a look at guys that maybe played

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Speaker 1: that much if not for injury. I think if fans,

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Speaker 1: I don't know, if fans aren't asking them to try

435
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Speaker 1: to lose games, I think they're t it's a you know,

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Speaker 1: let's look at all the young guys we possibly can. Well,

437
00:21:50,240 --> 00:21:52,640
Speaker 1: for the most part, they're already doing that. There's only

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Speaker 1: a few guys, haven't you know. It's it's ronde I know,

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Speaker 1: it's Bradley and I Rondell Carter up until yesterday being active,

440
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Speaker 1: Reggie Robinson, Francis Bernard, and that's that's really about it.

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Speaker 1: Now there's fans that may want to Nuchi to play

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Speaker 1: quarterback because olet's get you know whatever, what is what

443
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Speaker 1: is Reggie Robinson? What has to happen in order for

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Speaker 1: him to be on the field on defense for a

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Speaker 1: sentient period of time, Like, honestly, does this Does I

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Speaker 1: have to go put a helmet on first or a

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Speaker 1: white But no, no, let's let's let's let's keep me real.

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Speaker 1: You know, there's I feel like, you know, obviously there's

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Speaker 1: something going on with Reggie Robinson not to have been

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Speaker 1: on on defense because I see guys, I see guys,

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Speaker 1: I see guys that I'm saying, Okay, well, we couldn't

452
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Speaker 1: have got that from Reggie Robinson. You know that that

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Speaker 1: that effort. But again, I'm gonna stay out of that

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Speaker 1: part because I know that that's the coaches making the evaluation.

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Speaker 1: But I gotta but I gotta ask you guys something,

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Speaker 1: and Isaiah, I'll ask you this right all right there,

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Speaker 1: there seems to have been something that changed through the weekend.

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Speaker 1: I know, we don't get an opportunity to watch practice,

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Speaker 1: you know, but this team was a little bit different.

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Speaker 1: They played with it, and granted they played the Cincinnati Bengals.

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Speaker 1: I'm just talking about from an energy level, from a

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Speaker 1: personnel level, from just a scheme, from the way that

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Speaker 1: they you know, went out there and the energy that

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Speaker 1: they showed. It seemed to me like this was a

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Speaker 1: team that had a good week of practice. There were

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Speaker 1: some things that may have changed with a defensive line.

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Speaker 1: They may have went to half line drills, inside drills.

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Speaker 1: Something changed because I saw that these guys just played

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Speaker 1: a lot faster in the scheme. You know what. Heck,

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Speaker 1: that's a great point. I hope, you know, I'm gonna say,

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Speaker 1: I hope I hope that they that they did have

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Speaker 1: a great week of practice. I hope that that they

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Speaker 1: had some meetings around the effort thing and that they

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Speaker 1: came together and decided that they're gonna go out there

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Speaker 1: and give it everything right and go balls to the wall.

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Speaker 1: That's my hope. Also, my hope is that they didn't

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Speaker 1: identify the Cincinnati as a lesser opponent and all of

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Speaker 1: a sudden, you get the kind of the big dog

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Speaker 1: on the playground role, right. It's like, oh yeah, every

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Speaker 1: now I'm the big dog. I've been getting bullied, but

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Speaker 1: now I'm a bully you. I hope that's not the

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Speaker 1: tell you. You You know, after, you know, the day before

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485
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Speaker 1: got their butts kicked by one team that they placed

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Speaker 1: in the past, that was a pretty tough team. And

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Speaker 1: then they came back later on that night and they

488
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Speaker 1: played a team that was that they've played before and

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Speaker 1: that they beat before, and they knew it was a

490
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Speaker 1: lesser opponent, and all of a sudden, who did it go?

491
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Speaker 1: They're all over the field and they're playing hard and

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Speaker 1: all that, And I'm like, is it because they just

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Speaker 1: needed one game underneath their belt or is it because

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Speaker 1: they knew that they were better than this team? So

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Speaker 1: I think we have to wait in a round for

496
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Speaker 1: one more week to find out what that was. But

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Speaker 1: basing off of the Baltimore game. I feel as if

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Speaker 1: they had another good week and that they built upon

499
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Speaker 1: the previous previous week, and they did get that win,

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Speaker 1: thirty to seven the final score, and it was I mean,

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Speaker 1: it was high energy from the offense. You talk about

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Speaker 1: the defense and what they were able to bring juice

503
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Speaker 1: wise up front. I think it was something that the

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Speaker 1: Cowboys can build on moving into the final three weeks

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Speaker 1: of the season. He got San Francisco coming up on Sunday,

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Speaker 1: They're coming off a loss to Washington, and you got

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Speaker 1: two divisional games to round out the season against Philly

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Speaker 1: and then New York. So there's a lot of p

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Speaker 1: negatives circle around five to four and five five on

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Speaker 1: and the Cowboys of course take down the Bengals thirty

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Speaker 1: to seven. But there were some negatives, so we talked

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Speaker 1: a lot about the positives. But I do want to

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Speaker 1: spend a couple of moments here to see what the

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Speaker 1: the season. So Isaiah, I'll start with you, what did

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Speaker 1: you see yesterday that stuck out of something that the

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Speaker 1: Cowboys have to turn around. I'm gonna go right back

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Speaker 1: to them linebackers around that second level. These guys were

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Speaker 1: not where they're supposed to be, or maybe they are

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Speaker 1: where they're supposed to be, and then they jump out

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Speaker 1: of where they're supposed to be. Um, there is there.

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Speaker 1: I know there's one play in particular where where lvee

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Speaker 1: just I just I don't, I don't understand it. He

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Speaker 1: was in the hole. The fullback came at him like

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Speaker 1: like old school, right, like you're talking about Daryl Johnson

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Speaker 1: and freaking uh Ken Norton. Right. Yeah, just like once

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Speaker 1: he coming at you, you you know this is it's on.

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Speaker 1: We're just what we're doing. Yeah, and looked at him.

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Speaker 1: He said yeah, and he ran around him and he

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Speaker 1: ran around the opposite hole. He was in the A

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Speaker 1: gap originally about to go ahead up with a fullback,

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Speaker 1: ran through the B gap, ran back around the office.

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Speaker 1: A linement came around him and try to grab him

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Speaker 1: by the ankles. And I just looked at that. I'm like,

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Speaker 1: where's the physicality, where's the physicality? You're jumping around holes.

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Speaker 1: That's not what you do as a linebacker, especially a

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Speaker 1: team that's that's running the defense we're running where we

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Speaker 1: only have a couple of linebackers in the game. Anyway,

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Speaker 1: you have to be physical. We're relying you to be that. Um.

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Speaker 1: So I was still disappointed and that play and others

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Speaker 1: that I saw him and Jalen. They have to figure

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Speaker 1: it out. Man. They're more physical than that. They're they're

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Speaker 1: they're more aggressive than that. They showed flashes yesterday. They

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Speaker 1: did show some flashes of what we saw a couple

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Speaker 1: of years ago when they were running around and you

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Speaker 1: saw the guy swipe in and we howling, but it

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Speaker 1: wasn't enough. I agree with you, Isaiah. I call one

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Speaker 1: of my old coaches call that the Matador technique. And

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Speaker 1: when you when you ol a technique, man, you don't

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Speaker 1: want no parts of it. And I don't know what

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Speaker 1: that was about, because if he would have been able

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Speaker 1: to make that tackle based off they could just send

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Speaker 1: him straight to the Hall of Fame if that's how

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Speaker 1: he's gonna do it for the rest of his career.

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Speaker 1: But I mean, there was a lot of things. I mean,

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Speaker 1: when you talk about our our secondary and just guys

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Speaker 1: playing where they're being where they're supposed to be, and

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Speaker 1: obviously with the injuries and all of that, you kind of,

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Speaker 1: you know, you hesitate to be overly critical. But these

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Speaker 1: guys are professionals. They're being paid paid to play this game.

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Speaker 1: So I saw a lot of that's still in the

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Speaker 1: secondary where these guys are taking bad angles. Xavier Woods. Look,

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Speaker 1: I don't know what his strong points off of the

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Speaker 1: coaching staff to continue continue to keep starting him. But

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Speaker 1: I just feel like when it's when it comes down

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Speaker 1: to tackle someone, he just doesn't have it. He's kind

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Speaker 1: of he's catching basically. But when it comes down to

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Speaker 1: to guys like Jay Lou, I thought he played a

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Speaker 1: little bit better. I mean he played, he was aggressive,

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Speaker 1: But linebacker wise, linebacker wise, you know, the guys definitely,

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Speaker 1: uh they didn't That wasn't their best work. And when

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Speaker 1: you say the eye and the guy don't lie, that's

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Speaker 1: something that they got to go back to today and

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Speaker 1: look at the way that they performed, especially with running

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Speaker 1: around those blocks. Yeah, I think I think Cincinnati had

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Speaker 1: almost almost two hundred yards at halftime. You know, they

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Speaker 1: were on pace for a lot of yardage. They beat

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Speaker 1: thought the way that they fought through a lot of

641
00:31:42,080 --> 00:31:44,520
Speaker 1: injuries in the secondary and were able to get off

642
00:31:44,520 --> 00:31:47,000
Speaker 1: the field in some fourth town situations in the second half.

643
00:31:47,080 --> 00:31:49,880
Speaker 1: That that was impressive. If there's a concern for me,

644
00:31:49,920 --> 00:31:51,600
Speaker 1: I'll put me to the offense Kyle and just say,

645
00:31:52,080 --> 00:31:53,920
Speaker 1: you know, while the offense looked good and a Dalton

646
00:31:53,960 --> 00:31:56,520
Speaker 1: had a really good game and they grind it out yards,

647
00:31:56,560 --> 00:31:58,840
Speaker 1: they were able to kind of manage the game because

648
00:31:58,840 --> 00:32:01,360
Speaker 1: they actually had a lead. We haven't seen that too often.

649
00:32:02,080 --> 00:32:05,480
Speaker 1: But you know, they're still having problems in the in

650
00:32:05,520 --> 00:32:07,320
Speaker 1: the red zone, you know, two or four in the

651
00:32:07,320 --> 00:32:10,840
Speaker 1: red zone, and I know people on Twitter questioning Kellen

652
00:32:10,880 --> 00:32:13,560
Speaker 1: Moore's play calling down around the two yard line with

653
00:32:13,640 --> 00:32:15,960
Speaker 1: two straight passes instead of give it to Zeke. Well,

654
00:32:16,480 --> 00:32:18,920
Speaker 1: they've had trouble in short yardage and it was also

655
00:32:19,000 --> 00:32:20,880
Speaker 1: other parts of the game trying to pick up runs

656
00:32:21,240 --> 00:32:23,800
Speaker 1: first down running the ball. So I think they missed

657
00:32:23,880 --> 00:32:27,200
Speaker 1: Zack Martin a lot. And you know, you know, we'll

658
00:32:27,200 --> 00:32:29,200
Speaker 1: see where they are with the playoff race. It's looking

659
00:32:29,400 --> 00:32:33,720
Speaker 1: thinner and thinner, dimmer and dimmer. But you know, to

660
00:32:33,840 --> 00:32:35,600
Speaker 1: try to win the rest of these games, they can't

661
00:32:35,600 --> 00:32:38,000
Speaker 1: just continue kicking field goals, you know, that's been too

662
00:32:38,120 --> 00:32:40,360
Speaker 1: much of a prop especially coming off of turnovers. You know,

663
00:32:40,400 --> 00:32:43,960
Speaker 1: they just aren't able to capitalize and score touchdowns. And

664
00:32:44,320 --> 00:32:46,000
Speaker 1: I think a lot of it is due to being

665
00:32:46,560 --> 00:32:48,880
Speaker 1: banged up on the offensive line, not getting that push

666
00:32:48,920 --> 00:32:51,760
Speaker 1: that they need. And I'm glad you brought that up

667
00:32:51,800 --> 00:32:53,880
Speaker 1: because I think one of the big things for me

668
00:32:54,280 --> 00:32:56,640
Speaker 1: yesterday was the fact that Zeke ends up with twelve

669
00:32:56,720 --> 00:32:59,160
Speaker 1: carries for forty eight yards. I mean, he and twenty

670
00:32:59,200 --> 00:33:01,400
Speaker 1: six of those were one run. He had that one

671
00:33:01,440 --> 00:33:04,280
Speaker 1: big twenty six yard run and the rest of the time,

672
00:33:04,320 --> 00:33:07,760
Speaker 1: I mean it was one, two, three yards. And I

673
00:33:07,840 --> 00:33:10,560
Speaker 1: asked this question yesterday on postgame because Nate Newton was

674
00:33:10,600 --> 00:33:13,120
Speaker 1: talking about the three four yards in a cloud of

675
00:33:13,200 --> 00:33:16,480
Speaker 1: dust type of mentality. Whenever it comes to Ezekiel Elliott,

676
00:33:16,320 --> 00:33:19,000
Speaker 1: and normally he's gonna get you those yards. He's gonna

677
00:33:19,000 --> 00:33:20,840
Speaker 1: get you three. He was gonna get you four. If

678
00:33:20,880 --> 00:33:23,040
Speaker 1: you need it, he's gonna get those yards. But lately

679
00:33:23,480 --> 00:33:26,080
Speaker 1: it hasn't been as automatic as it has been for

680
00:33:26,120 --> 00:33:29,600
Speaker 1: the entirety of his career. But if that's the only

681
00:33:29,640 --> 00:33:32,440
Speaker 1: thing he can do well now, then isn't that a

682
00:33:32,440 --> 00:33:34,720
Speaker 1: big worry for you? Because I saw that against a

683
00:33:34,920 --> 00:33:39,200
Speaker 1: bottom four rush defensive Cincinnati yesterday where they just couldn't

684
00:33:39,680 --> 00:33:43,520
Speaker 1: get the run game going for the Cowboys. But you've

685
00:33:43,560 --> 00:33:47,480
Speaker 1: got a bottom four offensive line and this, uh and

686
00:33:47,560 --> 00:33:50,000
Speaker 1: I understand that that, you know, the great Nate Newton

687
00:33:50,080 --> 00:33:51,880
Speaker 1: says that three yards in a cloud of dust. That's

688
00:33:51,880 --> 00:33:54,760
Speaker 1: a mentality that I feel like a lot of teams

689
00:33:55,360 --> 00:33:58,480
Speaker 1: don't incorporate. Maybe Tennessee does because of the kind of

690
00:33:58,560 --> 00:34:00,960
Speaker 1: running back that they have. But if you look at

691
00:34:01,160 --> 00:34:03,760
Speaker 1: you know Zeke over the last five years, his numbers

692
00:34:03,800 --> 00:34:06,040
Speaker 1: are trending down. And you're talking about a guy that

693
00:34:06,080 --> 00:34:09,200
Speaker 1: has had a ton of carries and a guy that's

694
00:34:09,239 --> 00:34:12,759
Speaker 1: also now dealing with some injuries. So look, I think

695
00:34:12,760 --> 00:34:14,600
Speaker 1: we can ride him on that. He did that that

696
00:34:14,719 --> 00:34:16,520
Speaker 1: one run that you're talking about. We broke off the

697
00:34:16,520 --> 00:34:19,080
Speaker 1: twenty yards over twenty yards. It looked good. It looked

698
00:34:19,120 --> 00:34:22,279
Speaker 1: like vintage Zeke, and then it went right back to

699
00:34:22,719 --> 00:34:24,719
Speaker 1: you know, guy's crowd in the line of scrimmage and

700
00:34:24,760 --> 00:34:27,960
Speaker 1: taking him away. You gotta understand that teams understand that

701
00:34:28,040 --> 00:34:31,759
Speaker 1: how hard, how bad our offensive line is, and they

702
00:34:31,760 --> 00:34:33,720
Speaker 1: can cry od the line of scrimmage and take certain

703
00:34:33,760 --> 00:34:36,799
Speaker 1: things away and they're they're taking away one of our

704
00:34:36,880 --> 00:34:40,080
Speaker 1: main weapons, and that Zeke Elliott. So I mean as

705
00:34:40,160 --> 00:34:42,879
Speaker 1: much he's gonna take the brunt of the criticism on that,

706
00:34:43,040 --> 00:34:45,080
Speaker 1: but we really have to come back to twenty twenty

707
00:34:45,080 --> 00:34:47,480
Speaker 1: and look at what teams have done against us to

708
00:34:47,600 --> 00:34:51,759
Speaker 1: nullify his impact. No, you said it, heck, I mean,

709
00:34:51,920 --> 00:34:54,840
Speaker 1: our officer line is where it starts. You can have it.

710
00:34:54,840 --> 00:34:56,719
Speaker 1: I mean, just just think about think about some of

711
00:34:56,719 --> 00:34:59,440
Speaker 1: the greatest rhetor backs ever played, and think about what

712
00:34:59,560 --> 00:35:01,640
Speaker 1: they would have been without an office, without a solid

713
00:35:01,640 --> 00:35:04,439
Speaker 1: officive line. You know this, this this cowboy's officier line

714
00:35:04,520 --> 00:35:07,160
Speaker 1: is not what it was once and it's definitely not

715
00:35:07,200 --> 00:35:10,440
Speaker 1: what it is with this current roster. Um. You think

716
00:35:10,440 --> 00:35:12,959
Speaker 1: about guys like Barry Sanders, right and my eyes, Barry

717
00:35:12,960 --> 00:35:15,560
Speaker 1: Sanders is a goat. Barry Sanders was able to make

718
00:35:15,800 --> 00:35:18,319
Speaker 1: crazy amount of yardage even with the officive line that

719
00:35:18,360 --> 00:35:22,399
Speaker 1: everybody would rate as subpar. Right. Um, He's not that

720
00:35:22,440 --> 00:35:24,439
Speaker 1: type of running back, you know. Zeke's not that type

721
00:35:24,440 --> 00:35:26,560
Speaker 1: of running back. Zeke needs a line that creates some

722
00:35:26,640 --> 00:35:28,520
Speaker 1: holes for him and then once he gets through the

723
00:35:28,520 --> 00:35:30,320
Speaker 1: line of scrimmage, then he will make some things happen.

724
00:35:30,880 --> 00:35:33,520
Speaker 1: But he's not this this willing deal, shake you up,

725
00:35:33,560 --> 00:35:35,320
Speaker 1: you know what I'm saying, Get everybody to make nasty

726
00:35:35,360 --> 00:35:37,799
Speaker 1: and then take off for seventy yards. That's not him.

727
00:35:37,880 --> 00:35:40,239
Speaker 1: He's not Tyreek Hill. Um, so we have people have

728
00:35:40,239 --> 00:35:42,920
Speaker 1: to stop sitting their expectations that way until this officive

729
00:35:42,920 --> 00:35:45,400
Speaker 1: line gets back to where they once were. Don't expect

730
00:35:45,400 --> 00:35:47,520
Speaker 1: too much out of Zeke in that regard. He's still

731
00:35:47,520 --> 00:35:50,200
Speaker 1: consistent when he gets past the line of scrimmage, he's

732
00:35:50,239 --> 00:35:53,319
Speaker 1: still falling forward, he's still running cats over, he's still

733
00:35:53,320 --> 00:35:55,640
Speaker 1: doing those things. Um No, he's not. No, he's not

734
00:35:55,680 --> 00:35:58,160
Speaker 1: breaking for forty yards. He's he's he's he's got a

735
00:35:58,160 --> 00:36:00,200
Speaker 1: couple years under his belt. Yeah. Now, but is he

736
00:36:00,280 --> 00:36:03,640
Speaker 1: being worth the ninety million, ninety million dollar contract he's

737
00:36:03,640 --> 00:36:05,919
Speaker 1: being given, because I think that's the biggest worries. Sure,

738
00:36:05,960 --> 00:36:08,560
Speaker 1: he does things right, he does these little things good

739
00:36:08,600 --> 00:36:12,000
Speaker 1: along the way, but whenever it comes to the money

740
00:36:12,040 --> 00:36:15,040
Speaker 1: he's being given. He's not being paid to be a

741
00:36:15,239 --> 00:36:18,640
Speaker 1: subpar or below average back. He's being paid to make

742
00:36:18,680 --> 00:36:21,600
Speaker 1: plays and change the game and be a lit and

743
00:36:21,640 --> 00:36:25,160
Speaker 1: that's necessarily so my question. So my question is who's

744
00:36:25,160 --> 00:36:27,879
Speaker 1: calling him subpar or below average right now. The things

745
00:36:27,920 --> 00:36:29,920
Speaker 1: that Zeke does well, he still does well. He's an

746
00:36:29,960 --> 00:36:33,120
Speaker 1: age or say, but I'm saying. What I'm saying is

747
00:36:33,239 --> 00:36:35,799
Speaker 1: people are asking him to be Superman right now when

748
00:36:35,800 --> 00:36:39,120
Speaker 1: that's never been his style. But still contract says. His

749
00:36:39,200 --> 00:36:41,680
Speaker 1: contract says, do what you kept doing, which was run

750
00:36:41,719 --> 00:36:43,680
Speaker 1: behind his great office A line and when they get

751
00:36:43,680 --> 00:36:45,560
Speaker 1: through the whole runs of cats over and makes them

752
00:36:45,560 --> 00:36:48,000
Speaker 1: do his miss That's what his contract says. That not

753
00:36:48,320 --> 00:36:50,240
Speaker 1: all of a sudden, Oh now you're playing with their

754
00:36:50,480 --> 00:36:52,799
Speaker 1: third third string of office A line. Now we need

755
00:36:52,840 --> 00:36:55,600
Speaker 1: you become Barry Sanders. No, that's not in his contract.

756
00:36:55,800 --> 00:36:57,840
Speaker 1: That's not that's not in this contract. His contracts to

757
00:36:57,920 --> 00:36:59,880
Speaker 1: be the same consistent running back he was, and he

758
00:37:00,000 --> 00:37:02,080
Speaker 1: he can't only be that if he has an officive

759
00:37:02,080 --> 00:37:04,919
Speaker 1: line that creates those gaps for him. And by the way,

760
00:37:05,080 --> 00:37:07,120
Speaker 1: I just wanted to mention, I know it's it's a

761
00:37:07,120 --> 00:37:10,040
Speaker 1: five man offensive line, but I think Zach Martin really

762
00:37:10,080 --> 00:37:13,680
Speaker 1: does His absence is felt, you know. You know, I'm

763
00:37:13,719 --> 00:37:15,719
Speaker 1: just looking at when he missed the Washington game with

764
00:37:15,719 --> 00:37:18,520
Speaker 1: a concussion, they had eighty three rushing yards. He came

765
00:37:18,520 --> 00:37:21,719
Speaker 1: back for three straight games one thirty three, one forty four,

766
00:37:21,880 --> 00:37:25,640
Speaker 1: one eighty against Minnesota rushing and then he goes out, Yeah,

767
00:37:25,680 --> 00:37:31,160
Speaker 1: he goes out against Washington right on Thanksgiving and sixty

768
00:37:31,200 --> 00:37:34,120
Speaker 1: yards one eleven against Baltimore. You know, the line just

769
00:37:34,200 --> 00:37:38,200
Speaker 1: has not been as as you know, physical and dominant

770
00:37:38,280 --> 00:37:42,160
Speaker 1: upfront without him, and that's why he is arguably the

771
00:37:42,200 --> 00:37:45,080
Speaker 1: best guard in the league, maybe a top two three

772
00:37:45,200 --> 00:37:47,480
Speaker 1: offensive lineman in the entire league. They really miss him,

773
00:37:47,520 --> 00:37:49,759
Speaker 1: not to mention what they've been missing already this year.

774
00:37:49,920 --> 00:37:53,360
Speaker 1: That does affect Zeke. I mean, I thought Barry Sanders too, Isaiah,

775
00:37:53,440 --> 00:37:57,000
Speaker 1: Like that's Barry Sanders made something out of nothing throughout

776
00:37:57,000 --> 00:38:00,320
Speaker 1: his career in Detroit. But you know, every great running

777
00:38:00,320 --> 00:38:02,920
Speaker 1: backs still needs, still needs the best line possible to

778
00:38:02,920 --> 00:38:06,120
Speaker 1: make things happen. My argument, Rob is this, and whenever

779
00:38:06,120 --> 00:38:08,360
Speaker 1: this conversation comes up around Barry centers, so this is

780
00:38:08,360 --> 00:38:10,800
Speaker 1: we're talking into context of like, Zeke, if you took

781
00:38:11,000 --> 00:38:13,839
Speaker 1: Emmett Smith, no disrespect to em imm It's amazing. If

782
00:38:13,880 --> 00:38:16,120
Speaker 1: you took Emmitt Smith and put him on Detroit back

783
00:38:16,160 --> 00:38:19,960
Speaker 1: in the day, what would Immit have been? Maybe not

784
00:38:20,080 --> 00:38:27,440
Speaker 1: im it would leading Russia. Same person, right, same capabilities,

785
00:38:27,880 --> 00:38:30,400
Speaker 1: different situation because of what the officer line presents you

786
00:38:30,560 --> 00:38:32,400
Speaker 1: now due to opposite. If you take Barry Centers an

787
00:38:32,440 --> 00:38:36,560
Speaker 1: elusive running back, right, I'm play playmaking running back. Put

788
00:38:36,600 --> 00:38:38,520
Speaker 1: him with the Cowboys officer line at that time, does

789
00:38:38,560 --> 00:38:40,160
Speaker 1: he have the same stats as he had in Detroit?

790
00:38:40,800 --> 00:38:42,360
Speaker 1: Now I got something for you. I got something for

791
00:38:42,360 --> 00:38:45,319
Speaker 1: you as there so and people that are down on

792
00:38:46,120 --> 00:38:48,880
Speaker 1: that are down on Zeke. If you put Zeke in

793
00:38:49,120 --> 00:38:53,439
Speaker 1: Kevin Stefanski's offense in Cleveland, then you get the Zeke

794
00:38:53,520 --> 00:38:55,960
Speaker 1: that you have zac in two in his sixteen So

795
00:38:56,040 --> 00:38:58,600
Speaker 1: you're not you're not having these same questions. And the

796
00:38:58,680 --> 00:39:01,319
Speaker 1: thing about his contract is he earned his contract. He

797
00:39:01,440 --> 00:39:04,280
Speaker 1: earned it based off of the carries and the yards

798
00:39:04,320 --> 00:39:07,440
Speaker 1: and all of that. And I understand it's really hindsight

799
00:39:07,520 --> 00:39:09,799
Speaker 1: to turn back and say, oh, well, look, you're not

800
00:39:09,840 --> 00:39:12,400
Speaker 1: what you used to be and not give credence to

801
00:39:13,000 --> 00:39:16,120
Speaker 1: what he has to deal with to create all of that. So,

802
00:39:16,360 --> 00:39:18,919
Speaker 1: I mean, look after twenty twenty and we come back

803
00:39:18,920 --> 00:39:21,240
Speaker 1: over there and look at the totality of this season,

804
00:39:21,280 --> 00:39:22,680
Speaker 1: there are gonna be a lot of things that you

805
00:39:22,760 --> 00:39:25,480
Speaker 1: have to criticism that you have to sit back on

806
00:39:25,840 --> 00:39:29,080
Speaker 1: because of the way that this offensive line, those injuries

807
00:39:29,080 --> 00:39:30,839
Speaker 1: that they've had to deal with. So, I mean, it's

808
00:39:30,840 --> 00:39:33,319
Speaker 1: easy to critique and judge Zeke, but then you got

809
00:39:33,320 --> 00:39:35,319
Speaker 1: to look at everything, man, before you you come up

810
00:39:35,320 --> 00:39:38,120
Speaker 1: with that conclusion. And I get it. I get it, Kyle.

811
00:39:38,160 --> 00:39:40,920
Speaker 1: I mean it looked the twenty six yard run. Look,

812
00:39:40,960 --> 00:39:42,920
Speaker 1: he hasn't had those twenty yard runs and that's that

813
00:39:43,000 --> 00:39:45,879
Speaker 1: opens up to criticism because he got more of those

814
00:39:45,960 --> 00:39:47,680
Speaker 1: his first year or two in the league than he

815
00:39:47,719 --> 00:39:51,480
Speaker 1: has now. But I just think when you get your

816
00:39:51,680 --> 00:39:57,719
Speaker 1: your entire offense healthy and he's healthy, I still think

817
00:39:57,719 --> 00:40:01,359
Speaker 1: he's a productive running back for you. Yeah, I think

818
00:40:01,360 --> 00:40:03,080
Speaker 1: it is something that you have to look at though,

819
00:40:03,120 --> 00:40:05,880
Speaker 1: whenever it comes to this offense, and of course the

820
00:40:05,920 --> 00:40:08,759
Speaker 1: offensive line plays a massive factor. I'm not disagreeing there,

821
00:40:08,840 --> 00:40:11,440
Speaker 1: but I think just whenever he comes to the contract

822
00:40:11,480 --> 00:40:14,120
Speaker 1: of what it says, yeah, it says be consistent, but

823
00:40:14,280 --> 00:40:17,840
Speaker 1: consistency right now has been below what is consistency was

824
00:40:18,040 --> 00:40:20,279
Speaker 1: whenever he was playing earlier. And yes, like I said,

825
00:40:20,520 --> 00:40:24,080
Speaker 1: the offensive line has has a big deal and playing

826
00:40:24,080 --> 00:40:26,040
Speaker 1: a role in that. All right, let's take us our

827
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828
00:40:28,400 --> 00:40:30,600
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Speaker 1: Here on Talking Cowboys presented by Guy Coo, Kyle Yeoman's

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Speaker 1: Isaiah Stanback, heck Ma Harrison and the Great Rob Phillips.

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Speaker 1: And well, guys, it doesn't look good whenever it comes

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Speaker 1: to the NFC East anymore. We got to week fifteen

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Speaker 1: before we said, oh well, the Cowboys are in a

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Speaker 1: bit of trouble, even though they are still sitting at

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Speaker 1: four to nine. They got the win yesterday, but the

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Speaker 1: big reason why they are still in a bit of

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Speaker 1: troubles at Washington also got a win. They've now won

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Speaker 1: three straight. They beat the Cowboys, they beat the Steelers,

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Speaker 1: and they took down the forty nine Ers, and they

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Speaker 1: are sitting at six wins right now with two game

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Speaker 1: lead in the division and with three games to play.

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Speaker 1: So what does that mean for the Cowboys. It means

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Speaker 1: if it Washington wins one more game and the Cowboys

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Speaker 1: lose one more game than the Cowboys are eliminated. Actually,

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Speaker 1: either or one of those two things to happen. One

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Speaker 1: of those two things has to happen. Not an end,

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Speaker 1: it's no more ends. It's basically Cowboys have to win out.

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Speaker 1: Washington has to lose out in order for the Dallas

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Speaker 1: Cowboys to win the division and go to the playoffs

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Speaker 1: here in twenty twenty. So what is the message heckma

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Speaker 1: whenever it comes to Mike McCarthy and this coaching staff

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Speaker 1: moving into these final three weeks of the year, when

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Speaker 1: the division looks the way that it does. So I'm

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Speaker 1: gonna talk and coaches speak right now, and they always

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Speaker 1: say control with two can control, right, So that is

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Speaker 1: that's gonna be the Monstra if Frisco at the Star

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Speaker 1: control with you. If you control, do what you can

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Speaker 1: do and prepare for every week like it said last

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Speaker 1: and that's what this team has to do. When if

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Speaker 1: you watch the Washington football team and also the Giants game,

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Speaker 1: you know, the Washington football team and their defense and

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Speaker 1: oh my god, Chase Young defensive Rookie of the Year.

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Speaker 1: If you don't vote for that, I don't know what's

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Speaker 1: wrong with you. And I don't think that the Giants

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Speaker 1: are what we thought they were going to be. But

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Speaker 1: the Cowboys, if they have any hope, like you said,

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Speaker 1: they have to win out and looking at Washington's schedule, man,

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Speaker 1: it's hard pressed to see that they can't win, at

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Speaker 1: least against the Panthers. Rob, I just keep playing hard.

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Speaker 1: You know, you're not out of it yet. It's not

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Speaker 1: looking good obviously, but you know, I said it earlier

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Speaker 1: in the show, and it's it's not twenty ten. You know,

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Speaker 1: it's not the same situation as when they started one

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Speaker 1: and seven and Jason Garrett took over for Wade Phillips

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Speaker 1: and they basically, you know, put everybody on notice. Instead,

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Speaker 1: we're evaluating for next year. It's not that you know,

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Speaker 1: Mike McCarthy is established as the head coach, but I

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Speaker 1: think he's still trying to get that foundation laid down

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Speaker 1: for next year. So they need to spend the last

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Speaker 1: four weeks of the season, you know, evaluating guys and

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Speaker 1: seeing who fits, you know, especially defensively, they have so

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Speaker 1: many questions to answer defensively and what they're gonna look

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Speaker 1: like scheme wise, who's going to be part of the

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Speaker 1: to see how guys performing and have guys play well

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Speaker 1: so they can make that decision afterwards, because there's going

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Speaker 1: to be changing on that side of the ball in

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Speaker 1: terms of personnel with guys leaving through free agency, and

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Speaker 1: they've got to see if the scheme they have works,

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Speaker 1: you know what they want to do going next year.

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Speaker 1: No heck, but tigu right out of my right, right

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Speaker 1: out of my mouth man when he said, you know control,

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Speaker 1: would you can control? Um? You know I would tell

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Speaker 1: the guy's control, would you control? And the eye and

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Speaker 1: the sky don't lie? That's it. You know what what

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Speaker 1: you what you put on the field, that is your resume.

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Speaker 1: So whether this for you, whether it's for this team,

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Speaker 1: it is important. So go out there and do what

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Speaker 1: you can do. And with the final three games on

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Speaker 1: the schedule, they're all three winnable. You can win against

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Speaker 1: San Francisco, New York and Philadelphia, even though Philadelphia looks

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Speaker 1: pretty good yesterday with Jalen Hurt says the quarterback. I

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Speaker 1: mean they look solid. I mean that's kind of what

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Speaker 1: we expected. Whenever Carson Wentz will spin. But I'm not

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Speaker 1: going to go there. Whenever it comes to the Philadelphia Eagles,

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Speaker 1: but these are winnable games, and whenever it comes to

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Speaker 1: the Cowboys. Overall, four wins compared to seven wins, even

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Speaker 1: though for draft nuts you don't want to hear that.

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Speaker 1: You want to hear the four wins top ten pick.

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Speaker 1: But if you finish seven, tell me this right now.

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Speaker 1: I mean, if you finish seven and nine, with what

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Speaker 1: you've had to work with and what your team looks

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Speaker 1: like right now, completely in shambles, you cannot tell me

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Speaker 1: that's a fantastic coaching job. You cannot tell me that

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Speaker 1: this coach did extra work and put in extra work

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Speaker 1: to get to that point and to make something happen

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Speaker 1: moving into twenty twenty one that you can be positive

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Speaker 1: about it. I don't care about the draft picks at

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Speaker 1: that point. If you're winning seven games this year, you've

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Speaker 1: got a lot to be happy about, and you've got

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Speaker 1: a lot of excitement going into twenty twenty one when

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Speaker 1: you get all these guys back, and I think that's

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Speaker 1: something to think about here in the final three weeks

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Speaker 1: of the year. But it's going to be certainly something

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Speaker 1: to look for. The Cowboys got to build on this

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Speaker 1: thirty to seven win over the Cincinnati Bengals. But that's

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Speaker 1: gonna do it for us here on Talking Cowboys. We'll

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Speaker 1: be back tomorrow nine thirty. Will continue looking backwards at

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Speaker 1: the Cincinnati game. We'll take a look at the tape,

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Speaker 1: and we'll start looking ahead a little bit as the

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Speaker 1: San Francisco forty nine ers come to town this Sunday.

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Speaker 1: But for Heck Harrison, for Rob Phillips, for Isaiah stand

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Speaker 1: back and back at the Star, mister Chris Bean putting

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Speaker 1: in the work. I'm Kyle Gilmans saying so long. We'll

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Speaker 1: see you tomorrow. I'm Talking Cowboys. Presented by Geico. This

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